----- Forwarded message from Maxim Kammerer <mk@dee.su> ----- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:27:21 +0300 From: Maxim Kammerer <mk@dee.su> To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Shelley <shelley@misanthropia.info> wrote:

Sure, but I think Manning has a zero chance of obtaining a pardon.

Col. Morris Davis: “Military has detailed regs on confinement credits & parole eligibility. My best est is he'll do about 8-9 yrs, out by age 33-34.” https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/370223513400913920 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Davis If true, a pretty fitting sentence, I think, for indiscriminately publishing huge amount of classified information that potentially endangered many people, and considering that USA has unusually harsh sentences for a developed country. An interesting comment on Reddit, of all places: “Significant amounts of foreign service agent names were released. These are civilians working for their government in some official capacity (think spies, except not all of them are cloak and dagger types). These were people stationed in hostile countries (Pakistan, SE Asia, Middle East, Africa) and if their cover had been blown while in country they could have been sought out. Luckily, as I understand it most of the people that were exposed were notified by their handlers in advance (basically as soon as word go out that diplomatic cables had been compromised) and were extracted. A friend of mine works in a field that draws a lot of foreign service agents to it due to the nature of the work, and they were camped out in northern Pakistan with her crew. She woke up one morning (the morning after the diplomatic cables were released) and half her crew was gone. They got word in the middle of the night and left. They couldn't even tell the people they were with why they were gone, and I imagine it was quite unsettling to be there and be missing people all of the sudden.” http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1kszc9/bradley_manning_sentenced_to_35... -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys@stanford.edu. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5